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 The Book Thief (Readers Circle)Best Price: $5.98 Death is the narrator in this haunting tale of the young book thief - a German girl thrust into... |  The Sweet Far Thing (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy)Best Price: $10.00 I bought this book with the first two as recommended by some young adults I know. I was a little... |  A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy)Best Price: $4.00 At first I wasn't expecting much, I thought this book was going to be one of those books about... |  The Wednesday WarsBest Price: $8.90 On the suggestion of a friend who has excellent taste in books, I bought this book for my eleven... |  Fever 1793Best Price: $3.26 The book Fever 1793 was about a girl who is sick and everybody else is sick as and she needs to... |
 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval VillageBest Price: $12.19 The reviewers have covered it all, but such a truly great book deserves ongoing praise. How nice... |  Boy in the Striped PajamasBest Price: $4.63 In 2009, I intend to teach John Boyne's "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" as part of an... |  The Bronze BowBest Price: $3.50 There are a great deal of "Young Adult Fiction" books that I didn't get around to... |  Kit an American Girl (6 Book Set)Best Price: $25.00 My 5-year old daughter is fairly persnickety about what I read to her. We've tried other... |  Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy)Best Price: $5.43 I enjoyed this book. It was a bit longer than I expected (550 pages seems like a lot for a young... |
 Nothing But The Truth: A Documentary NovelBest Price: $2.49 It's a very interesting book. Some books are very borring but this is a very fun book.This book... |  Fallen AngelsBest Price: $3.76 FALLEN ANGELS takes place among the rice fields and swamps of Vietnam. Teenager Richie Perry... |  Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition)Best Price: $1.80 The book is written in nice,figurative language, but it is far too sad. The book starts out like... |  The Golden Goblet (Newbery Library, Puffin)Best Price: $3.32 " `Ast!' came Wenamon's hiss. `I told you we were not alone!' `We will be soon,' Gebu... |  Rumors: A Luxe Novel (The Luxe)Best Price: $10.87 Imagine the moneyed teenage soap opera of "Gossip Girl," but less shrilly... |
 Devil's BroodBest Price: $18.45 The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman?s trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor... |  My Brother Sam Is Dead (Apple Signature)Best Price: $3.29 My son needed this for a school report. It is a very good book for middle school revolutionary... |  The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (rpkg) (HarperClassics)Best Price: $0.99 The story begins with a young girl, aged 13, traveling through a ship yard heading for a ship... |  I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The HolocaustBest Price: $2.16 The book shows plenty of emotions of their loved ones being lost. Livia wrote her memory into a... |  Across Five AprilsBest Price: $1.50 When I read the book, Across Five Aprils, the book kept me interested throughout the story. I... |
 Milkweed (Readers Circle)Best Price: $2.83 When I first started reading this book, I was impressed by the writing. The vivid descriptions.... |  The Education of Little TreeBest Price: $6.73 Nutshell review - Not withstanding the controversy surrounding the authenticity of the story and... |  Follow the RiverBest Price: $4.02 I'd read this book once before, a long time ago, and it blew me away then. I know that the... |  Blood on the River: James Town, 1607Best Price: $3.33 This is a great book. Perfect for our unit study about the First landing. It's addictive for... |  Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Puffin Story Books)Best Price: $3.15 This was one book that I remember reading when I was in fourth grade. I bought this copy for my... |
 The Door in the Wall (Books for Young Readers)Best Price: $2.23 The protagonist, a thoroughly spoiled youth named Robin, is rendered lame by a disease. ... |  The LuxeBest Price: $6.71 I admit that I committed the cardinal sin of bookreading and read this book's sequel, Rumors,... |  A Northern LightBest Price: $2.42 I just finished a most remarkable and moving book! A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly... |  Black DuckBest Price: $3.28 My 13yr old son was like "what is this" when he found this book I had purchased for... |  Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War TwoBest Price: $4.09 Ned Begay, a six year old kid, who had to leave his Navajo home, in America and join a boarding... |
 AirmanBest Price: $5.99 I loved The Airman, I think it has the perfect blend of Comedy, Drama, Suspense, and everything... |  Carry On, Mr. BowditchBest Price: $3.50 Another fine Newbery-winning historical novel. This one is actually a fictionalized biography of... |  The Strongbow Saga, Book Three: The Road to Vengeance (The Strongbow Saga)Best Price: $10.85 The vivid Strongbow Saga continues in The Road to Vengeance, as Halfdan brings home his... |  Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota VolunteersBest Price: $2.01 This book is a true story and it says so in the authors note. This book is very sad,... |  Hattie Big Sky (Readers Circle)Best Price: $4.30 A really sweet story with twists and turns. The story is told through the eyes of an... |
 Archimedes and the Door of Science (Living History Library)Best Price: $7.45 EVERYTHING that Archimedes is supposed to have "discovered" already existed in Africa,... |  The Light in the ForestBest Price: $2.34 Plot Kernel - A 15 year old boy, who had been captured at age 4 by Delaware Indians is returned... |  SounderBest Price: $1.75 William H. Armstrong, Sounder (Harper Collins, 1969) Sounder is another book I read this year... |  The King's GoldBest Price: $16.47 From acclaimed and bestselling author Arturo P?rez-Reverte comes the fourth adventure of Captain... |  The Fighting Ground 25th Anniversary EditionBest Price: $1.50 Reviewer: Astor Madrid, Age 13; White Plains, NY Fighting Ground by Avi; Reprint... |
 Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903 (Golden Mountain Chronicles)Best Price: $2.69 "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep is a novel I greatly enjoyed reading. I just finished it... |  Amos Fortune, Free Man (Newbery Library, Puffin)Best Price: $2.50 Amos Fortune is the true story of a man who was born in Africa - the son of a great chief - and... |  Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)Best Price: $1.50 I am a music teacher and am doing a medieval/renaissance program at the library. I made this... |  Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 2)Best Price: $2.20 I'll save a review of the book for others, but suffice it to say that I really liked it. As a... |  A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl HarborBest Price: $1.88 The book was pretty good as I recall (it was a while back when I read the book). If I remember... |
 The Eagle of the NinthBest Price: $3.69 This book is skillfully done in many ways. The story is smooth and the pacing good. There are... |  Copper SunBest Price: $4.88 This is a very well-written, fast-paced, factually-based book. Chapter twenty-four, starting on... |  The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Illustrated American Classics)Best Price: $13.22 I originally read this way back in jr. high and sadly only remember being entranced by it--not... |  The Midwife's ApprenticeBest Price: $1.00 I enjoyed Karen Cushman's novel, Catherine, Called Birdy, so I was excited to read a second... |  Nobody's PrizeBest Price: $10.13 Nobody's Prize is on par with its predecessor in terms of style and content and is not a... |
 Sing Down the MoonBest Price: $1.25 Sing down the moon is a book for ages about 11-13. The main character is a girl named Bright... |  Rifles for WatieBest Price: $2.90 I FIRST READ R-F-W IN 1992, I HAVE SINCE READ THE NOVEL 10 TIMES. AS A CIVIL WAR BUFF I REALLY... |  Bud, Not BuddyBest Price: $5.20 Being born decades after the Depression, in the South, to a middle-class white family, I'm about... |  My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War (Bloody Jack Adventures)Best Price: $11.56 The infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor... |  The House of Dies DrearBest Price: $2.57 A mystery with twists and turns and ... you need to read it rather than this review. Two thumbs... |
 A Countess Below StairsBest Price: $4.50 I liked this book and had a great time reading it but the thing is, I didn't figure out the... |  The Land of the Silver ApplesBest Price: $6.99 A beautifully written novel with a unique combination of high adventure, 8th century history,... | |||
See also for Historical Fiction Books